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• Horoscopes Oct. 19, 2025: John Lithgow, pay it forward
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• Scotts Valley hands MVC first loss, creates logjam for second place | High school football roundup
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• Saturday Night Five: USC and Washington tumble, ASU survives and BYU wins the Holy War as Week 8 delivers the drama
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• Sharks apologize for ‘offensively worded message’ supportive of ICE on scoreboard
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• Better effort, same result as San Jose Sharks remain winless on season
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• Editorial | A big change in homeless services in Santa Cruz
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• More than 15,000 march in Santa Cruz for ‘No Kings’ sequel
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• Pajaro Valley | Activists reflect on monthlong hunger strike
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• 49ers officially activate George Kittle, put Fred Warner on injured reserve
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• Word Game: Oct. 19, 2025
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• Asking Eric: Our co-worker called us stingy for not funding her honeymoon
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• Saturday Night Five: USC and Washington tumble, ASU survives and BYU wins the Holy War as Week 8 delivers the drama
  Instant reaction to Week 8 developments on the field … 1. USC gonna USC If that…
• Dear Abby: They know way too much about me, and it’s my own fault
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• Today in History: October 19, ‘Black Monday’ on Wall Street
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• Sharks apologize for ‘offensively worded message’ supportive of ICE on scoreboard
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• Better effort, same result as San Jose Sharks remain winless on season
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• Earthquakes take care of business on ‘Decision Day’ but still miss playoffs
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• The Critters We See When We Build Infrastructure
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• Local Businesses & Giant Octopus Celebrate Cruzio’s 35th Birthday
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• Giant Slugs & Giant Sloths — That’s So Santa Cruz
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• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
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• Faster Internet Coming to Coastside San Mateo
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• 🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨
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• Black-footed Cats
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• Hidden Fortress Opens Cafe at Cruzioworks
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• Cruzio Got a Grant. What That Means for You
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• A Squalid Building, a Tip to the Feds, and Then ‘Straight-Up Chaos’
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• It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump
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• Bari Weiss’s First Days at CBS: Booking Big Guests and Irked by Leaks
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• A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
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• Israel launches air strikes in Gaza accusing Hamas of 'bold violation of ceasefire'
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• Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French culture minister says
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• Colombia accuses US of 'murder' after strike on boat
  President Gustavo Pedro says the vessel, which Donald Trump believes was carryin…
• Afghanistan pulls out of cricket series after it says Pakistan air strike killed local players
  Pakistan said the strike targeted militants and denied attacking civilians.
• Millions join anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests across US
  The demonstrations against the US president – which Republicans had called “hate…
• Spanish town bans black cat adoptions during Halloween
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• Grand Theft Auto made him a legend. His latest game was a disaster
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• Why I fell in love with a book called I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
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• Mystery lingers weeks after missing schoolgirl found dead in pop star D4vd's Tesla
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• 'I'm 89 and I saw my homeland rebuilt before – but now I don't believe Gaza has a future'
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• Pajaro Valley school district to weigh policy revisions some call ‘classroom censorship’
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• Anti-Trump protests planned Saturday in Santa Cruz, Watsonville
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• Housing Matters expected to end some essential services for homeless people at Coral Street
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• What does Prop 50 mean for Santa Cruz County?
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• Federal shutdown threatens food assistance program for thousands of children in Santa Cruz County
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• Fact check: Santa Cruz’s Measure C tax initiative
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• ‘First big rain of the season’ expected in Santa Cruz County on Monday
  As of Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service was predicting 2 to 3 inche…
• Jimmy Panetta and Zoe Lofgren to host town hall Saturday in Watsonville
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• Supervisors advance new rules to scrap illegally parked vehicles in Santa Cruz County
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• Transportation commission considers options for midcounty rail trail amid $77 million shortfall
  The Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line runs through Live Oak between 7th and 17th avenu…

• The Final WTF with Marc Maron and Barack Obama
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• Doing Good: Michael Lewis and Santa Cruz Online
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• New Data Shows Record CO2 Levels in 2024. Are Carbon Sinks Failing?
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• You Only Need $750 to Pilfer Unencrypted Data From Satellites, Researchers Say
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• Should Scientists Be Allowed to Edit Genes of Wild Animals? Top Conservation Groups Just Voted Yes
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• Researchers Build Complex 3D-Printed, Carbon-Absorbing Bridge Inspired by Bones
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• 'How We Sharpened the James Webb Telescope's Vision From a Million Kilometers Away'
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• The News: September 15, 2025
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• Doing Good: Michael Lewis and Santa Cruz Online
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• The News: September 22, 2025
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